jazzbo

Got the title wrong from memory: Pra Balancar (don't know how to make the "cedille"). I've listened to all the complete albums he has up and am working my way through the separate selections. Of course the Milton Banana and Deodata lps are great (know those from before as do yo) but the others are fun too. The Elza Soares is very interesting! There's quite a stomping version of In the Mood on there! I don't like everything under the sun by any means. I do like to have fun with new music sometimes. I like the sort of cheezy fun pop elements on a lot of these more than the smooth fusiony aspect of some later Brazilian music. And I'm trying to be less and less snobby about music because I find that the snobbery in jazz really bugs me more and more as time goes by and I'm trying not to participate. It's easier to extend this inclusive mood into newer genres of exploration. This guy has an impressive collection! I'd like to hear a lot of the albums I haven't.

I have a small one I bought in Ethiopia in 1968. It's not of the greatest qaulity, but the wood is amazing! It's fun to pluck now and then.

The RCA/Buddha cd is a good place to start I think. I can't imagine having no Fats! I need him in my life!

Well, it's more like you have space issues if you ask me. . . . I think that the Pra Barancado is a pretty good album! Nice drumming and piano!

I guess at the time the mediocre commercial material seemed less mediocre on Borbaletta Guy; I agree it's dated now but I was able to buy this when it came out and really groove to it (with some help from partying materials). I still really like it; I think maybe I have sentimentality stirred in there that makes parts seem not mediocre to me.

Swing is overall disappointing. . . for me it has all the worst most noodlesome aspects that the personnel sometims bring to dates, and Santana is really not doing HIS thing and it just is boring. When it first came out I spun it and spun it and spun it on cassette trying to like it. Then I bought it and cd and rinsed and repeated. Still don't really like it.

Shoot. I ordered the Shepp, Rudd and Shorter. I'm so broke all the king's men wil have one big job ahead of them.

I usually get a few hours (sometimes as much as three) of listening in before my wife wakes up and "Sunday" on CBS is turned on. This year I have had a tradition of playing Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" (one of three versions, original, Detroit mix, or the live version, all found on the Deluxe Edition) as my sort of ersatz Sunday Service. It's really beginning to mean something to me. Otherwise I just try to get caught up on listening; I usually get a few more hours in later int he day.

Well, we're not all as picky as you are Jim!

Ah they're all good. Throw in another of my favorites as wel, "Borboletta," laid back, gorgeous stuff. Hopefully there will be a remaster soon enough.

I actually think The Rajah is a pretty cool date, but not at that price! There are some bargains on half.com though. I heartily recommend the Ray Drummond cd you can find sealed for $.75 (100 times cheaper than the Morgan cd!) "Vignettes". . . ! It's a good one.

There are lp downloads and single track downloads as well! http://www.sabadabada.com/music.htm

Fantastic record, yes indeed! Rest of the cd art is pretty good too!

Fantastic album with pretty interesting cover. . . .

Not one of my favorite lp covers, but fantastic lp!

But wait a minute! I'm more of a drummer. . . .

It's the GUITAR lover in me that likes this one a lot. . . .

Yes, I'll agree, but I didn't think that was even implied!

I love "Mingus Plays Piano" as well. It's one of the few recordings I've kept more than one "version" of. I sold the US Impulse version; I had before and still have the Mobile Fidelity silver version which sounds great and I have since bought a Japanese lp facimile 24 bit version that is quite quite nice. Just so intimate and so deep; it's riveting stuff.

Gee, they can sell popular cds about 10 times, and get 30% each time. . . doing the math they come out ahead. I sense record company lawyers hovering and ready to pounce however!

Yes, I wonder if they still have those undubbed tapes around. . .they did the SACD using the Mingus dubbed tape and I wish they hadn't!

No, it's not "jazzbo" bidding on this. Won't say I'm HAPPY with the Connoisseur, but I'm holding steady with it for now!

Okay. . . I confess. . .I used my intellectual battering ram!

Actually, that list looked to me like an appropriate one to chronicle the trumpet style that Arturo seems to really really dig. There are other trumpet styles. . . unrepresented. Maybe he should have added Mario Bauza and Doc Cheatam. The ringer in this list seems to me to be Bix. We would make a different list, each of us. I mean I don't personally feel that Lee Morgan and Booker Little contributed that much to the tradition. Some great music, yeah. But innnovations in trumpeting? Not to my way of looking at it.

Marty, as one Mingus nut to another, I agree entirely with your post above! I've been CHAMPIONING "East Coasting" for a long time. A truly special recording. And I see "Stormy Weather" trumpeted around a lot, hardly underappreciated. (Deservingly so, but I still like the Hadi-Knepper-Shaw band material a hair more for the denser front line and for the piano. . . . Me likey a piano with Mingus).